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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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"2nd
Oct.
'21.--I
read
to-day
part
of
Miss,
and
also
Mrs.
W.'s
Journal
in
Switzerland.
They
put
mine
to
shame.[1]
They
had
adopted
a
plan
of
journalising
which
could
not
fail
to
render
the
account
amusing
and
informing.
Mrs.
W.,
in
particular,
frequently
described,
as
in
a
panorama,
the
objects
around
her;
and
these
were
written
on
the
spot:
and
I
recollect
her
often
sitting
on
the
grass,
not
aware
of
what
kind
of
employment
she
had.
Now
it
is
evident
that
a
succession
of
such
pictures
must
represent
the
face
of
the
country.
Their
Journals
were
alike
abundant
in
observation
(in
which
the
writers
showed
an
enviable
faculty),
and
were
sparing
of
reflections,
which
ought
rather
to
be
excited
by
than
obtruded
in
a
book
of
travels.
I
think
I
shall
profit
on
some
future
occasion
by
the
hint
I
have
taken."
[Footnote
1:
Perhaps
the
most
interesting
entry
in
Henry
Crabb
Robinson's
Journal
of
the
tour
is
the
following:
"26th
June
1820.--I
made
some
cheap
purchases:
if
anything
not
wanted
can
be
cheap."]
Again,
in
November
1823,
Robinson
wrote:--
"Finished
Mrs.
Wordsworth's
Journal.
I
do
not
know
when
I
have
felt
more
humble
than
in
reading
it.
It
is
so
superior
to
my
own.
She
saw
so
much
more
than
I
did,
though
we
were
side
by
side
during
a
great
part
of
the
time."
Robinson
advised
Dorothy
Wordsworth
to
publish
her
Journal
of
this
Continental
Tour,
and
she
replied
to
him,
23rd
May
1824:--
"...
Your
advice
respecting
my
Continental
Journal
is,
I
am
sure,
very
good,
provided
it
were
worth
while
to
make
a
book
of
it,
i.e.
provided
I
could
do
so,
and
provided
it
were
my
wish;
but
it
is
not.
'Far
better,'
I
say,
'make
another
tour,
and
write
the
Journal
on
a
different
plan!'
In
recopying
it,
I
should,
as
you
advise,
omit
considerable
portions
of
the
description....
But,
observe,
my
object
is
not
to
make
a
book,
but
to
leave
to
my
niece
a
neatly-penned
memorial
of
those
few
interesting
months
of
our
lives...."
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